Jaylen Brown was unequivocally brilliant The Celtics will play bigger, more consequential games during this playoff run, but Wednesday’s game quietly meant quite a bit.  A win meant that the Celtics could buy Jayson Tatum five days of rest for the wrist that he landed on hard in Game 1.

The image of the game may have belonged to a bloodied Kristaps Porzingis, but the performance of the night belonged to Jaylen Brown.

Playing without superstar Jayson Tatum in Game 2 against the Orlando Magic, the Boston Celtics answered the physicality of Orlando, with a tough, fought out victory. Although Boston never got their lead to a wide gap,